A "blue plaque" is a sign attached to a house where (maybe) someone famous once lived, or placed where a notable event took place, or attached to a building that is remarkable in another way.

Note: Please see additional updates below for some minor adjustment to the Requirements for this Category made on 12/27/2008.

Expanded Description:

Waypoints for this category are for "blue plaques" associated with local or regional organizations that manage a "blue plaque" program (so don't even think of spray-painting a "blue sign" and hanging it on your front door!)

In the United Kingdom there are several organizations that manage "Blue Plaque" programs.

To post a new waymark, please include a close up photograph of the "Blue Plaque." If applicable, also post a more distant picture of the "Blue Plaque" on its building or setting, and a description of the historical significance that is associated with the "Blue Plaque."

**Update 12/27/08**

* It must be mounted on the exterior wall of a building (not on a pole)
* Include the name of the managing agency.
* It must commemorate either some connection of the building or site of
the building with a famous person, or the site of a famous building or
event.
* It must be blue, UNLESS:- It belongs to a known and recognized series of
plaques that are another color ( eg the Westminster plaques, or the stone
London plaques.)

Added by Touchstone with thanks to Team Sieni for the suggestions

Thank you for your interest!

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Instructions for Visiting a Waymark in this Category:

To log an entry for a "Blue Plaque," please try to include a picture of you next to the plaque!

Category Settings:

Waymarks can be added to this category

New waymarks of this category are reviewed by the category group prior to being published

This plaque, placed by the Wynkyn de Worde Society, is located on the west side of the Stationers' Hall courtyard. The courtyard is entered through an alley on the north east side of Ludgate Hill next to St Martin-within-Ludgate church.

This English Heritage blue plaque, to the author Jerome K Jerome, indicates that he "lived here" whilst writing "Three Men in a Boat". The plaque is attached to a building on the north east side of Chelsea Bridge Road.

This English Heritage blue plaque is attached to a house on the south east side of Eccleston Square, close to Victoria railway station. The plaque advises that the conductor, Sir Michael Costa, lived here from 1857 to 1883.

This Borough of Islington green plaque, erected to indicate where Fenner Brockway lived from 1908 - 1910, is attached to a house at the north west corner of Myddelton Square. The plaque was erected before he died which was in 1988.